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MORRIS v. METRIYAKOOL

Docket Nos. 67480, 68208. (Calendar Nos. 9, 10).

418 Mich. 423 (1984)

344 N.W.2d 736

MORRIS v. METRIYAKOOL JACKSON v. DETROIT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided March 1, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lopatin, Miller, Freedman, Bluestone, Erlich, Rosen & Bartnick (by Steven G. Silverman) for plaintiffs Morris and Jackson.

Kitch, Suhrheinrich, Smith, Saurbier & Drutchas, P.C. (by Donald A. Ducastel), for defendant South Macomb Hospital, and (by Stephen M. Kelley and Gregory G. Drutchas), for defendants Detroit Memorial Hospital and Bloom.

Schureman, Frakes, Glass & Wulfmeier (by Edward C. Reynolds, Jr.), for defendant Metriyakool.

Amici Curiae:

Nancy A. Baerwaldt, Commissioner of Insurance, and Nederlander, Dodge & McCauley, P.C. (by Victor T. Adamo and Patrick B. McCauley), for Physicians Insurance Company of Michigan.

Kerr, Russell & Weber (by A. Stewart Kerr and Daniel G. Beyer) for Wayne County Medical Society and Michigan State Medical Society.

KAVANAGH, J.

These cases concern arbitration of medical malpractice claims. The most significant issue presented is whether the malpractice arbitration act of 1975, MCL 600.5040 et seq.; MSA 27A.5040 et seq., deprives plaintiffs of constitutional rights to an impartial decisionmaker. We hold that it does not.

Plaintiff Diane Jackson was treated in November, 1977, at defendant Detroit Memorial Hospital...

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